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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24628342, member: 26430&quot;]I really like these bilingual coins, and the Ghaznivads are some of the coolest of all. This is a great example, I&#039;ve actually been watching out for one. (Though, it seems my numismatic want-list only grows larger and larger.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I like them -- but I don&#039;t actually <i>have</i> any! At least not presently. </p><p><br /></p><p>I foolishly sold the coin below about 8 or 10 years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>An Ilkhanid / Gaykhatu Dinar, which was at least bilingual, with the Kalima in Arabic, and something in Uighur. (Maybe trilingual with&nbsp; Persian script in the margins?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, I didn&#039;t put enough effort into studying the scripts and languages at the time.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566282[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>At present, I do have a few &quot;multi-cultural&quot; and &quot;multi-religious&quot; coins that at least approach the same themes.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Crusader Dirham, imitating Ayyubid type of AH 648</b>:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566283[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9040150" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9040150" rel="nofollow">Ex Galst</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5957555" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5957555" rel="nofollow">Wackerlin 217.2 (this coin)</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Artuqids of Mardin. Najm al-Din Alpi AE<b> Dirham </b>(<b>AH </b>547-572 / 1152-1176 CE)</b>:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566285[/ATTACH] </p><p>ICV 1203 (this coin illustrated) [ATTACH]1566284[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And a few others that I think of along the same lines. But that portion of my collection is quite small. Would really like to add another proper bilingual Ghaznivad type and/or another Ilkhanid. </p><p><br /></p><p>(Or some of the interesting bilingual coins from Sicily, with Latin / Arabic, and the like. There are also the Indo-Greek types with Sanskrit or other script and Greek on alternate sides of the same coin, which are great too.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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